Often it may prove desirable to push an entire Drupal hierarchy into subversion. The example only provides for local file access.
On Fedora 8 subversion is already installed. To check if installation already present.
rpm -q subversion
Login as root and create subversion root dir and children.
[root~]# mkdir /svndir
[root~]# mkdir -p /svndir/repos
[root~]# mkdir /svndir/users
[root~]# mkdir /svndir/permissions
[root~]# chown -fhR webmaster.apache svndir
[root~]# mkdir -p /svndir/repos
[root~]# mkdir /svndir/users
[root~]# mkdir /svndir/permissions
[root~]# chown -fhR webmaster.apache svndir
Now create repository for our html dir.